Author's note: Attention please! I'm sorry! In the last chapter, I made a terrible error. I wrote fifteen candles...I meant sixteen. Sorry!
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We sat down to the table. Gee disappeared to the kitchen and then he came back, carrying three plates. He placed them on the table and then left and returned with three more. It was my favorite salad with mozzarella cheese and tomatoes. "Buon Appetite!" Gee said with his cute Italian accent. We started eating and talking. When we finished, I stood up to help Gee with the empty plates. He pushed me back into my chair. "Stay here. You are not doing anything tonight, it's your birthday! Mikey is going to help me, don't worry!"
Mikey heard that and went to the kitchen with all the dishes and they reappeared in few seconds with other plates. My favorite food, spaghetti with tomatoes, parmesan cheese and olives. I had to admit, it was delicious.
"Gerard, you never told me how amazingly you can cook! It's really delicious!"
"Thanks, baby. But it wasn't just me. They all helped, of course!" he said. I blushed by the name he called me, there, in front of my brother but mainly in front of Mikey. I searched for a term to define our relationship. Friends with benefits, were we?
We finished, everyone ate a piece of cake and it was amazing. Then we were just sitting at the table in silence.
"What now?" I asked. "Presents!" Frankie called, like if he was the one getting them. They all went away, just Gee stayed there. Before I managed to ask him anything, the others came back. Bob stood in front of me first.
"So, I'm not very good at making some speeches or whatever and neither choosing presents for girls, you know. But, happy birthday. Here you are," he wished me, while pulling me into a hug and kissing my cheek. Then he pointed at a huge present, which was on the ground next to him.
"Bob, thank you!" I said and leaned down to open my present. After cutting the bow and pulled from it the layer of paper, I was facing a box. Nothing was written on it. I kneeled down and opened the box. I was almost sure that my heart was going to stop beating. It was an electric guitar, a Fender. It was black and on the edges was written my name and My Chemical Romance. The guitar strings were in brightly red color. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" I managed to scream happily.
"Bob! That's...that's so nice of you! It's amazing, I love it!" I told him, giving him a one more thankful hug before I started jumping around the room like an idiot.
Ray caught my hand and stopped me. "Hey, calm down, sweetie!" he said. i started laughing like an idiot. "Sorry. I'm okay, I'm okay," I managed to say. "Well, after Bob gave you his present, mine is gonna be such a fail. But anyway, here you go. And happy birthday and you know. Everything," he said, handing me one small box, two bigger ones and one huge flat thing. I opened the box first. It was a perfume. My favorite one I had way back when I was younger, but it was pretty expensive, so my 'parents' didn't want to buy it to me anymore. The two bigger boxes turned into something like a drawing kit. There were pencils, color pencils, erasers, sharpeners, water colors and oil colors. It was amazing. Then I finally got to the huge flat thing. After I tear the paper from it, the present almost fell out of my hands. It was a Green Day poster. And not an ordinary poster. First thing was that I never saw this photo before. All three of them were wearing just black clothes and the background was white. I concentrated on the black letters written in the right upper corner:" For Chloe Iero for her birthday! We heard you're such a talent and we all can't wait to hear you play and sing and to meet you personally. With love, Mike, Tré and Billie Joe"
"Oh. My. God!" that was all I managed to say before jumping around Ray's neck. "Thank you, thank you, and thank you!" I was repeating all over again. He was just laughing. It took me a while, until I managed to calm down.
Frankie pulled me into his arms then. "Sister!" he said first. "Happy birthday! And, just...I'm so happy that you're here with us. I love you so much," he whispered, while kissing my cheek. First he handed me a little box. "It's...Mom would give you this for your sixteenth birthday. It's in our family for six generations," he pointed out, when I opened the box and there was beautiful silver ring, with a small onyx stone. It was...indescribably amazing. Tears came to my eyes. "I'm so sad that Mom can't be here," I said quietly. Frankie gave me a look and I could see there were tears to be seen in his eyes, shining a little. He blinked rapidly. "And your second present," he said, while running out of the room and back in again. It was something he was holding in his hand, so I couldn't see it. "Here you go," he said, placing it carefully into my opened palm. I gasped. Car keys.
"Frankieeeeeeeee! You're amazing!" I screamed happily and caught his hands into my hands and we started dancing some crazy dance in the room.
"Let's go and take a look, which one it is!" Frankie said then and we all quickly went to the garage. There was Frankie's BMW, Mikey's Audi, Gerard's Mercedes, Bob's Ferrari and Ray's Maserati. I gasped, when I saw the sixth car which was parked in there. It was a black Porsche. I was staring at it. "It's limited edition. Only 3000 thousand of them are in the world. So, it's yours. Your Porsche 911, the black edition," Frankie said then. I continued staring at that car. MY car.
I needed to search every bit of it, of course. It was amazing.
Millions of thankful hugs for Frankie later, we returned inside. Now it was only the brothers left to give me their presents. Gee went first. "I need to talk to you later then," he whispered so no one else caught it. He continued normally: "Well, what should I say? Just, happy birthday! Lots of happiness and health..." he said. "And love!" he added as an afterthought. He pulled me into a hug and kissed me on my cheekbone. Then he handed me his present. It was a book. After I got over the first shock, that Gee was giving me a book, I read the title. Three Tales of Chemical Romance written by Irvine Welsh. My expression changed to a big smile. No, a grin.
"I thought you might want to know, how we began," he said. That was nice of him. "Gee. Thanks. I can't wait to read it!" I answered and wanted to turn to Mikey.
"And here is the second one!" Gee said and smiled. It was a box, same size as the one Frankie gave me. I opened it slowly. And I had to tell myself not to cry. It was a necklace. A half of a necklace obviously.
It was one half of a heart, with the word Friends written on it. As I turned back to Gee, I finally saw that he was wearing the other half, with the word Best, written on it. I took my half and joined it together with his. I cuddled into his opened arms then. "Thank you," I said, sobbing into his shirt.
"Welcome. And shhhh. Don't cry. Don't cry," he whispered back.
Now it was finally Mikey's turn. He stood in front of me strangely for few seconds.
"Uhm...well...happy birthday! Here is your first present," he said, hugging me. It looked like a box. I tear down the paper, away from it. "Mikeeyyy! You're the best! Star Wars movies, I love them! How did you know?" I screamed after seeing my six favorite movies.
I hugged him. He pulled me as close as possible and I could hear the beat of his heart. It was beating like if he has just been running. I inhaled his scent, which I would recognize anywhere.
"I'm glad you like them. We were talking about the movies, few days ago. And now, your second present!" he said, leaving the room and then he came back, holding something covered by a piece of cotton.
"Take it off from it," Frankie said. I did. It was a cage. And there was something in it. I was not normal all my life, I loved these animals. Mice. It was a cute, white mouse with black ears.
"Mikey? How did you know that I love these little animals! Thank you!" I screamed and after giving him a kiss on his cheek, I opened the cage and pulled my little pet outside. "Is it a he mouse or a she mouse, Mikey?" I asked Mikey.
"A boy. Or so did the lady in the pet shop said. I'm glad you like him! Isn't he cute?" Mikey said. I nodded and turned my attention to the little animal I was holding in my hands.
"Welcome to My Chemical Romance, little one!" said Gerard with a playful smile. "Yeah, welcome to our band, Mickey!" I added. "Mickey?" Mikey asked.
"Like Mickey Mouse of course!" I replied, laughing. Then I smiled at my new pet once again and put it back into the cage. I shook my head then and looked at them all standing there. "I love you, guys," I managed to say, while pulling them all together in another group hug. There was: "We love you too!" from Bob and Ray. And there was: "I love you too!" from Gee and my bro. Mikey just hugged me tightly.
"Thank you so much for the presents! This is the best birthday ever!" I managed to say. "What about we watch one of the new Star Wars movies?" Gee asked. "Even two!" Frankie added and we all went to the living room. I took the cage with Mickey with me. After the movie started I took the mouse out of the cage and while closing the doors, I let him run around the room. It was super cute.
Author's note: I hope you weren't disappointed with this chapter. Now go and read the second one. AND…REVIEW, please! :))))) XoXo, BajaSt